Coreflooding Studies to Investigate the Potential of Carbonated Water Injection as an Injection Strategy for Improved Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-121

  Sohrabi, Mehran ^a   Kechut, Nor Idah ^a   Riazi, Masoud ^a   Jamiolahmady, Mahmoud ^a   Ireland, Shaun ^a   Robertson, Graeme ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbonated water injection; CO2 storage; Coreflooding; Enhanced oil recovery

Indexed keywords

CARBONATED WATERS; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; COREFLOOD TESTS; COREFLOODING; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLASS MICROMODELS; IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY; LIGHT OIL; LOW SALINITY; N-DECANE; OFFSHORE RESERVOIRS; OIL GANGLIA; OIL RECOVERIES; OIL RESERVOIRS; OIL VISCOSITY; REMAINING OIL; RESERVOIR CORES; ROCK WETTABILITY; SAFE STORAGE; SANDSTONE CORES; VISCOUS OIL; WATER BASED;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATION; COALESCENCE; CRUDE OIL; EXPERIMENTS; OFFSHORE OIL FIELDS; OIL WELL FLOODING; PARAFFINS; PETROLEUM REFINING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SECONDARY RECOVERY; TERTIARY RECOVERY; VISCOSITY; VISUALIZATION;

WATER INJECTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID INJECTION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OFFSHORE ENGINEERING; RESERVOIR FLOODING; SANDSTONE;

EID: 83055194359     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9835-5     Document Type: Article

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